Eladrin
The Red Elves, Wood Elves, Grandchildren of Eventide
An Ilautian Seer of Eventide.
Variably called red elves or wood elves some cultures, the eladrin are a species of Meranthic (mixed human-elven) humanoid.
Eladrin of Waking Materia are thought to be children of Ahm's Second Aspect, the Swords of of Eventide.
Eladrin societies were once so frequent in the forested continents of Central Materia (Alanthan'aluwan in the Old Tongue) that the plane could have been considered primarily elven. Then came the Deluge, and what was once Alanthan’aluwan is now The Sunken Expanse. The eladrin were decimated. Only traveling merchants, dignitaries, and the occasional wood elf society on the plane’s peripheries were spared. Nonetheless, these long-lived people have done all within their power to maintain their beliefs and customs; new, smaller eladrin civilizations have been carved out over the last few centuries, however things are not as they once were. Eladrin continue to visit Alanthan’aluwan in their dreams, and wake in mourning.Appearance
See also: Eladrin Image Gallery (External)
A Rakuyōsei, or Birch Elf.
Civilizations
There is one major and one minor eladrin civilization remaining on Materia. The sub-archipelago of The Broken Empire known as Ilhalvalaut was in an area sheltered from the Deluge's tsunamis by the main continent, and is now a thriving, relatively advanced society with a deep well of historical knowledge.
The Rakuyōsei, on the other hand, are only a handful of tribes displaced from their ancestral lands after losing a centuries-long war with the drow over control of the Emerald Expanse to the west of Marai.
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